[JDEV] Jabber reliability

David Waite mass at akuma.org
Tue Apr 23 12:40:09 CDT 2002


Gerhard Poul wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have a few questions regarding reliability. - I hope you can help me
>to get some insights about the behavior of Jabber.
>
>- Does Jabber ensure that a message is delivered reliably?
>
No.

>
>
>- Is it possible to get a confirmation from the server or client when a
>message has been delivered?
>
Possible to get a client to confirm messages, although there isn't a 
standardized way to request this.

>- Is there a way to make sure that a message is only delivered once?
>
Current delivery semantics are at-most-once, but I believe this is 
implementation specific.

-David Waite




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